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EDITORIAL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama St., Atlanta, Ga. Entered as second-class matter at po t. ffice at Atlanta, under act of March 3. 137 S Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier, cents a week. By mall, 35 00 a year. Payable In advance. .e " Police Problems and a Possi ble Solution An efficient Atlanta policeman who covers his beat thorough ly must be blessed with the endurance and speed of a McWhor ter or th- bi'-ybng ability of a Walthour. Some of the “beats" are so long that b\ the time the aver age policeman has walked from one end to the other and back he hasn't strength to handle a baby burglar. Os course, the ex cuse officially is that there are not enough policemen and there is not enough money to get any more. The official excuse always tends to make one believe that Atlanta, the most prosperous city in the South, is a municipal pauper. Be that as it may, there is away that the city can have a much more adequate police protection, with little or uo extra cost, and no anxiety to the watch dogs of the city treasury. Here is the way. There are fourteen regular sanitary inspectors employed by the city, and their salaries aggregate $13,260 a year. These men sometimes look at the front of your house and sometimes look at your back yard and declare the premises are clean or unclean, as the case may he. Aside from these inspectors in the sanitary department, there * are thirteen others, classed as follows: One milk inspector, two dairy inspectors, two market in spectors. two slaughter house inspectors, two fumigating inspect ors. and four plumbing inspectors, whose salaries total $15,440 a year. There are twelve men employed by the city whose duty it is to read your water meter ami six more who are called in spectors of the water works. These men draw an aggregate of $17,100 for their work. In other words, the city pays $45,800 for forty-five inspect ors in the water and health departments. No one would suppose for a moment that a policeman who has passed the civil service examinations could not read a water meter after he had once been told how to do it. Nor would any one suppose that a policeman could not look at a back yard and tell if it was dirty. A good policeman would make a good inspector. Why not make at least half of these inspectors policemen and make every policeman in the city an inspector? The police would become familiar with their districts. They would be as conspicuous on their beats as the.) are now, and bet ter still. THERE WOULD BE MORE OF THEM. The patrolling of some of the beats now is ridiculous. For instance, there is a beat on Marietta street that runs from Simp son street to the I nion Stock Yards, a distance of two miles. Whitehall street, from Iluumphries street to Fort McPher son. Capitol View and Battle Hill, a total distance of ten miles, is covered during the day hy one lonely mounted policeman. Another lonesome man on a bicycle preserves law and or der all da\ on Peachtree street from Ellis street to the city lim its at Brookwood, a distance of three miles. To make matters worse. Atlanta brags id' just one police station. I hat. of course, is just where it has been for twenty years or more. A call lor the police from any part of the city means that THE police station is the starting point. The city owns a tire engine house in every ward. Most of them are spacious, and a sub-police station in three or four of them would cost practically nothing, and would be a step in the right direction. At this moment the police of the city are almost as hope lessly scattered as the tribes of Israel. Without sub-stations they will never he in closer touch with headquarters than they are now. It is always good to remember that Atlanta is a metropolis and can’t be run on the methods of way-station towns. The city is growing wonderfully, but the municipality will have to make some rapid strides to keep up the pace. The Great Gains of Wo man’s Suffrage Women have won their full rights of suffrage in ten states —states that cast in all 70 electoral votes. There can hardly be a doubt that this number will be materially increased during the next four years, and that in the next presidential election the importance of the women’s vote, already conceded by politi cians. will be enhanced to such a degree that the appeal to wom en will have a new and transforming influence upon American public life. I hey who say that the success of the Democratic partv is a setback io woman's suffrage must nave neglected to read the re turns. Certainly they fail to understand the force and quality of the feminine influence that pervaded the Democratic campaign. Although the women al the national Democratic headquar ters demanded much more than votes for women, thev never for a moment demanded less And they are planning to move forward to a wider assertion of political rights and duties of women than they- sisters of th<> other parties seem fully to com prehend I'he states that voted in favor of woman's suffrage on No venjber 5 are Michigan. Kansas, Oregon ami Arizona. In six other slates t'alifornia Colorado, Washington Idaho. Utah and Wyoming full rights of suffrage had already been conceded WolU.'' The Atlanta Georgian Wonderful Underground Dwellings HOW MEN LIVED BEFORE THEY LEARNED TO CONSTRUCT FIFTY-STORY BUILDINGS. Showing the entrance to a kiva, or underground council chamber; ruins of TyuOnyi, a large communal house at the Rito De Los Frijoles. nf®® 'CJH T / \ \ , .■: tw*' xW.iA /\\ -i&” Ito i \ \ (By courtesy of the Scientific American.) Leaving a prehistoric underground Showing the holes which once bore the ends of cedar beams forming bal- C °^ceremonTcJ” r ’ cave" 1 aU' the 3 conies; prehistoric cave-dwellings on the Pajorito Rito De Los Frijoles, Plateau, Northern New Mexico. New Mexico. Wilson’s Election Proves Suffrage Theory <T"MIE election Is over, and as the • I shouting and the tumult die, there stand forth three points that are particularly inter esting as they affect women. First and foremost, four more states—-Michigan, Kansas, Oregon and Arizona—have joined the hon orable procession that has granted political freedom to its women. Second, although Colortel Roose velt tame out in favor of woman sutfiage, and the Progressive party was the only one that inserted a woman suffrage plank in Its pint form, the Bull Moosers did not car ry a single state in which women were voting. This one fact—that women did not stampede in a body to the Pro gressive party—is the best suffrage argument that has ever been ad vanced. It shows that women can keep their heads under the stress of great temptation, and refutes the often expressed fear that they would be fanatics in politics, guid ed solely by their emotions and prejudices. Patriotism Before Profit. And 1 say this without intending any disparagement whatever to the Progressive party, which many women supported Just as conscien tiously and intelligently as they did either the Democratic or Republi can party. But in considering the high pa triotism and unselfishness of the women who voted for and worked for the Democratic and Republican parties, which offered them noth ing. instead of the Progressive par ty, which promised them their heart's desire, simply because they believed in the Democratic or Re publican doctrine rather than the Progressive doctrine, think of this: Eor 60 years and more—longer than the Children of Israel wan dered hopelessly in the wilderness — we v omen who believe that taxa tion without representation is ty ranny. and that all Just government rests upon the consent of the gov erned, have been battering upon tlie doors of the great political par ties, begging to be let in. if only we might have the humblest seat, be low the salt, at our father's table. And year after year the door has been barred against us, and we have been turned away with jeers and ridicule. Nobudj knows the toll and blood of our striving, the bitterness of our defeat, of how time and again, our hearts have fainted with de spair, of how oft« n, when we saw out Icadtis fall and die by the wuy- WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1912. By DOROTHY DIX side, It has seemed that we were fighting for a lost cause. Sixty years and more of baffled effort, and then, one party—the Progres sive party—opens the door and leads us in, an honored and in vited guest; one presidential can- W I DOROTHY DIX didate, after having long turned a deaf ear to our entreaties, at last claims, like Saul of Tarsus, to have seen a great light and been con verted. One would have thought that women would have been drunk with the joy of this partial victory, and that with one accord they would have rushed, pell mell, to enroll themselves under the Bull Moose standard. To their everlasting hon or this has not happened. Women put their patriotism before their profit, their love of their country before good to the cause that is nearest and dearest to their hearts and tried to do what they believed to be the best for the i'nited States, even though it might not have been best for suffrage. They know that they had nothing to hope for from Mr. Taft, and little to expect from Mr. Wilson, and yet because they believed in the Dem ocratic or Republican doctrine they spilt along those lines If men ever gave a liner examnU ~r ■uni- •r ty and appreciation of the sanctity of the ballot under tempting condi tions to become selfishly partisan, I don’t know of it. Tho third point of interest to women in the election is that it af fords them a visible illustration of the different political status of women with the ballot and women . without the ballot. All Parties Wanted Work. Heretofore, so far as a presiden tial campaign has been concerned, women have cut just about as much real figure in politics as a snow flake is supposed to cut in the region of perpetual summer. Cam paign orators were content to throw them a few bouquets of compliments, and to say something nice and flattering about women using their great silent influence in politics. And that ended it. But with the women voting in six states and holding the balance of power, and with women about to vote in many other states and keenly interested everywhere in politics, there was no talk about woman's silent influence. All three of the big parties urged women to use their voices in their behalf, and to roll up their sleeves and help with the actual political work. Woman without the ballot was a cipher that no one thought of con sidering. Woman with the ballot is a mighty power that has to be reckoned with and conciliated. The granting of the franchise to wom en in Michigan and Kansas and Arizona and Oregon is the begin ning of the end of the long fight women have made for political free dom. Won Over Prejudice. Other states will follow fast, and by the time the next presidential election comes around there will not even be any discussion Os the advisability of inserting a woman's suffrage plank in the platform, nor will the'.e be any presidential can diate who skulks behind the as sertion that he doesn't know where he stands in regard to giving wom an the ballot. The knowledge that millions of women vote, and that they hold the balance of power in any closely con tested election, will be powerfully illuminating to the understanding of politicians. Women have borne themselves well in this campaign, and the mor al victory they have won over pop ular prejudice by their high-mind ed attitude in polities is no less ti matter of congratulation than that then are four more stars in the suffrage flay THE HOME PA Ella Wheeler Wilcox Writes on Remarriage Only One Woman in Five Hundred Who Is Widowed in Her Prime Is Left With a Memory of Such Ideals of Love That Remarriage Is Impossible. Written For The Atlanta Georgian By Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copytight, 1912. by Amerfcan-Journal-Examiner. TWO women, botli widows, were talking of life, mother hood, and their ideals of duty. One woman was something past forty; she had b-en a wife at twen ty: and her children were growing into the romantic age. Site was contemplating a second marriage with good man. The other wom an was older: past the half-century mark; and her children were all married. She rebuked the younger woman for her thought of consenting to a second marriage. ‘‘You have a comfortable income,’’ she said, “and your Children ought to fill your life so that no such foolish idea as a second marriage could enter your mind. I was a widow at thirty; and now I am fifty-three; and I am thankful to say I am satisfied to* be my chil dren’s mother, and not their step father’s wife." Time Softens Sorrow. “But.” replied the younger wom an with some spirit. “I do not see that your example is one which would make other women eager to follow it." "And pray why not?” “Because you are a very lonely woman; your children are married and have homes of their own; they may love you devotedly, and be kind and all that; but the fact re mains, they do not need you to make their lives complete. “They do got need you in their homes, and you must feel yourself a guest when you visit them; it is in the nature of things. A new in dividuality has come into their lives. The son has his wife, and the daughter her husband; and if they go away on a journey they would find more pleasure to be with each other than with a third party. "Now, I have two young children who will soon be marrying; and I do not propose to make myself a problem to them, nor happiness a problem to myself. “I was a good wife to their fath er and I respect his memory. We were happy when he lived, and I Eliot and the Indians By the REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY. JOHN ELIOT, the "Apostle to the Indians,” preached his first sermon to the red men at a small Indian village near what is now Watertown, Massachusetts, two hundred and sixty-six years ago. Eliot and the aborigines have long been dust, but there is that in the above statement that may well challenge our most reverential at tention. John Eliot was one of the most cultured men of his time. He was as conspicuous among the men of his day for learning and thorough intellectual equipment as, say, ex- President Eliot, of Harvard, is among the men of the present time. A graduate of Cambridge. Eng land, he came to America in 1631, at the age of twenty-eight, distin guished for philological scholarship, linguistic talent and a general, all round erudition. It is safe to say that he might have had whatever he wanted in the young commonwealth in the way of office, honor and pow’er. In the church, the best pulpits were open to him, and in the state the highest positions were awaiting him. But from these allurements he cheerfully turned away to carry out the self-imposed task of mak ing himself the instrument of the mental and moral uplift of the red men. As proof of Eliot's profound ear nestness of purpose and deep sin cerity in his work, it is only neces sary to recall two astounding facts —first, that he devoted fourteen years to the study of the Algonquin dialect that was spoken by the In dians of Massachusetts Bay , and, second, that, hating mastered the task, he actually irunsliiteu the en- fHI W 3?v -• ’ - x \ i-»r* ' mourned his death. But time has softened the sorrow of his loss; and I a new affection has come into my heart and I do not propose io smother it. “It may pain my children so a time, to have me wear another name than that of their father; but they will become accustomed to it, and I trust the new father will v.in ' their hearts. They will eventually live their own lives. Enduring Ideals of Love. “I mean to have my own com panionship and my own home life, so that when my children go into their new homes I will not be left desolate.” The younger woman unquestion ably had the better of the argu ment. Once in 500 cases a woman who is widowed in her prime is left with a memory of such happiness and with such ideals of love that a remarriage would be impossible; it would savor of sacrilege to even entertain the idea. Once in 5,000 cases a man is left a widower with a similar barrier to remarriage. The remaining cases either marry again or would like to marry again. A woman in the prime of life, known and respected and loved by all America, has announced her In tention of a second marriage. Best Wishes and Blessings. In her youth she espoused a high official of our country, and she was a faithful wife and a devoted moth- | er, and graced every position which she occupied, and performed every duty with fine precision. She bore tjie strong limelight of publicity with dignity and met the difficulties of her position with ad mirable poise. When sickness, sor row and death came she entered each ordeal with the same grace and serenity which had kept her sweet and unassuming in her hour.- of prominence and prosperity. The best wishes and sincere blessings of a whole nation will at tend this woman on her second • wedding day. • tire Scriptures into the Indian lan- | guage. Nothing but Love could have ac complished that immense task "Love never faileth,” we are told by one of the highest authorities: and that is why Eliot did not break down in his herculean labors. His unselfish love for the Indians car | ried him through. Beginning his missionary labors with that first sermon in 1646, Eliot kept them up. without signs of fal tering, for forty-four years. The last piece of work that the good old man did was to translate an Eng lish book into the Algonquin tongue Never did a human being more completely devote himself to the good of others. All through his more youthful years, through his splendid prime, and away’ down into his declining days did he toil for the uplift of the "savages" who, in the opinion of most of the "Chris tians” of the time, were fit for nothing but to be shot down. Gathering them into villages, he strove with all his might to "reach their scanty intelligence and still scantier moral sense.” Some five thousand of the "children of the forest” were benefited by his minis trations, and if all the other Chris tians of Massachusetts had been of the type of Eliot, history mighi have a very different tale to tell. Yes, John Eliot passed away, and with him passed his Indians; thi Bible that he left in the Indian lau> guage can now be read by hardly a soul on earth; and the very places where the red men gathered to hear his teachings are forgotten But none the less true is it that tlx spirit that animated Eliot was the spirit of the Qood which lives for- and which is finally to make all men love each other as Eliot loved the red men of Maaeacbu aett« Bay.